Abstract In this research, a series of Ru(II) complexes, ([Ru(1-7)(ina)(NCS)2] (1-7=5-[6-(5-mercapto-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl)pyridin- 2-yl]-1,3,4-oxadiazole-2-thiol's, ina=isonicotinic acid) were synthesized and characterized using different spectroscopic and analytic techniques, such as NMR, UV, IR, CV and CHN. Also, the new complexes were used in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) as sensitizers. Current-voltage characteristics showed that the modifications of ligands clearly affected DSSC yield. Additionally, DFT calculations were performed and showed locations of frontier molecular orbitals of the complexes. While the locations of HOMO and HOMO – 1 orbitals are on Ru(II) metal center and SCN− ligands, the location of LUMO and LUMO + 1 orbitals are on the 1-7 ligands.


The anthraquinones 2-acetylemodin and deoxyerythrolaccin have been synthesized, the former for the first time, by processes involving addition of 1,1-diethoxyethene to appropriately substituted naphthoquinones. These coccid pigments are based on polyketide systems incorporating respectively the 1,3,8- and 1,3,6-trihydroxyanthraquinone skeletons.


Smoothed functional (SF) algorithm estimates the gradient of the stochastic optimization problem by convolution with a smoothening kernel. This process helps the algorithm to converge to a global minimum or a point close to it. We study a two-time scale SF based gradient search algorithm with Nesterov's acceleration for stochastic optimization problems. The main contribution of our work is to prove the convergence of this algorithm using the stochastic approximation theory. We propose a novel Lyapunov function to show the associated second-order ordinary differential equations' (o.d.e.) stability for a non-autonomous system. We compare our algorithm with other smoothed functional algorithms such as Quasi-Newton SF, Gradient SF and Jacobi Variant of Newton SF on two different optimization problems: first, on a simple stochastic function minimization problem, and second, on the problem of optimal routing in a queueing network. Additionally, we compared the algorithms on real weather data in a weather prediction task. Experimental results show that our algorithm performs significantly better than these baseline algorithms.


The attitude is apparent in the authors' selection of sophisticated literary examples. Whereas metaphor is frequently taught using cute (often cliched) animal comparisons, Reynolds et al. choose their examples from effective, "real-life" language [e.g., Reverend Martin Luther King's "the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination") and thereby illustrate not only the form of metaphor but also the power of connotation. When explication of poetry is introduced, the model is Wallace Stevens' "Study of Two Pears," a poem full of subtle perceptions and language. (With less verbally talented youth, an instructor might begin with less sophisticated examples and work up to Stevens, but the nature of the group inquiry in the workshop would remain the same.] Writing Instruction for Verbally Talented Youth is not a primer. It assumes that the teacher has some sophistication in literary analysis and in the writing process. The value of the book is in its approach to the teaching of writing, and the exercises and materials that will enable the knowledgeable teacher to guide students through the writing, critique, and revision processes. It should be a welcome source of ideas and direction for the secondary-level English teacher or the faculty sponsor of a school literary publication. It would also be a good addition to an instructional methods course for English majors who will teach writing at the secondary (including junior high) or college level. In the preface, the authors state that this volume describes the introductory course of a 3-year program in writing at CTY. Courses on analytic writing and fiction follow. Here's hoping Reynolds, Kopelke, and Durden will share more of their instructional expertise and ideas in a sequel.


Strategies based on the principle of heat flow and temperature control were implemented, and experimentally tested, to increase the sensitivity of a Tian–Calvet microcalorimeter for measuring heats of adsorption. Here, both heat-flow and temperature control schemes were explored to diminish heater-induced thermal variations within the heat sink element, hence obtaining less noise in the baseline signal. PID controllers were implemented within a closed-loop system to perform the control actions in a calorimetric setup. The experimental results demonstrate that the heat flow control strategy provided a better baseline stability when compared to the temperature control. The effects on the results stemming from the type of power supply used were also investigated.


In today's competitive world, it has become highly significant for organizations to connect and engage with employees to provide them with organizational identity. Employees are said to be engaged when their employers meet their basic needs, provide meaningful growth opportunities and also foster a sense of belongingness. Past studies have revealed that the quality of training and learning opportunities really influence the engagement of employees at workplace. Managerial practitioners and consultants are also putting efforts to improve the employee engagement through effective training and development programs. Employee training and development thus plays a key role in enhancing the loyalty and employee engagement. The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between employee engagement and training among banking sector employees in the Jalandhar region of Punjab. The sample size for the study included 100 banking sector employees. Data was collected from employees in the banking sector through administration of suitably designed questionnaires. Correlation coefficient was calculated between training efforts and the employee engagement levels. Findings indicate that there exists a strong positive correlation between employee engagement and training and development among the banking sector employees. The findings of the study suggested that human resource manager could consider training as an important instrument for enhancing the engagement of the employees in the organization.


A normal functioning of heat-and water supply systems of the far north nowadays is not simply or only a necessary level of comfort for each citizen, it is a problem of life support, trouble-free supply of consumers with energy in necessary amounts. Heat-ing season here last for at least nine months a year, and sometimes it comes up to eleven. For example, in Sakha republic (Yakutia) heating period consists of more than two hundred forty days, and in No-rilsk – three hundred days! An existing system of heat-and water provision of cities suffers signi fi cant alterations. Replacement of parts of conduits with water conduits of different diameter, an emergence of new inserts and broadening of the whole system leads to signifi cant changes in hydraulic regimes of networks. Besides, far north develops, slowly or quickly, and it means a problem of providing new construction objects with energy has to be solved. To meet the needs of consumers in de fi nite points it is necessary to increase work pressure on pumping stations that leads to an increase in electric energy consumption, increase in wearing of technological equipment, increase in possibility of an emergency situations in critical areas, and, therefore, increase in fi nancial costs to maintain systems of heat-and-water supply systems and energetic ineffectiveness of the system work as a whole. What isn't done to-day will be absolutely necessary tomorrow, but the costs will be signi fi cantly higher. A necessity to car-ry out constant calculations of hydraulic regimes of water and heat networks on existing actual scheme that will allow us to reveal critical areas of the net-work and form suggestions on their unloading and replacement of them with water conduits of differ-ent diameter. Based on these calculations, we can forecast, when is the best time to carry out repairs or reconstructive works.Making hydraulic calculations allows us to:– defi ne calculative circular pressure;– fi nd necessary diameter of a conduit that will allow us to transmit the necessary amounts of hot or cold carrier.During our hydraulic calculation it is necessary to carry out some operations:– construct a calculative scheme of water sup-ply, on which a length and diameter of water con-duit should be pointed as well as local resistance and calculated consumption of heat carrier at all system points;– within our calculation we should de fi ne a loss of pressure at all sections of conduits in order to choose hydraulic regime correctly in future and de-fi ne, what pressure we will have at nal sections.The results of hydraulic calculations are used to construct piezometric graphics, choose schemes of service introductions, defi ne capital investments into systems of heat supply, develop exploitation re-gimes of heat supply systems.Earlier such tasks for municipal water sup-ply systems were carried out only by project and scientifi c-research organizations. Having outdated software and carrying out calculations manually makes heat-hydraulic calculations really laborious and low-effective. This is defi ned by the fact that introducing any, even the slightest changes into the calculation network at this stage requires re-calculation that takes a lot of time and energy. And the development of systems of modernization and rationalization stays at the same level. It is neces-sary to solve all problems that are linked to devel-opment, projecting, and exploitation hydraulic sys-tems of different purposes for specifi c conditions and creation of program-calculative complexes.


Microsatellite instability (MIN) has been identified in a wide variety of human tumors, both familial and sporadic. In this study the authors attempted to correlate MIN with other biologic parameters to assess the significance of MIN in cancer.


In between the metal foil and the plate-shaped carrier, without unintentional peeling occurs, and it is possible to provide a metal foil with carrier which enables deliberate peeling. The present invention, peeling of the resin plate-like carrier, on at least one surface of the carrier, a metallic foil with carrier comprising a metal foil peelably adhered is allowed, with the metal foil and the plate-like carrier strength, is a metal foil with carrier is less than 10 gf / cm or more 200 gf / cm


This article brings together reflections of different kinds on several different, but related, experiences. The
principal one of these was personal, although it had a public output: the composing of two recent works (
O Venezia, for four women's voices and harp and
Twelve Transcendental Concert Studies on Themes from the
Australian Poets for piano solo). Both of these pieces exemplify a compositional approach which is often
characterised as 'postmodern' and both of them are also tonal compositions in some sense or that word. Since
both were composed in the early twenty-first century, after a period in which atonal compositional languages
held sway in much repertoire of the Western 'classical' tradition, the form of tonality which they exemplify
could, with considerable justification, be characterised as 'post-atonal tonality'.


The numerical calculation of electromagnetic field has always played an important role in engineering practice. Different numerical methods, such as finite element method, simulated charge method, boundary element method and moment method, have been summarized for different applications. These numerical methods have led to their simulation because of their own mathematical model, theoretical basis and assumptions. The limitations of the occasion promote the rational application of different numerical calculation methods in different electromagnetic field projects. However, in the face of complex engineering applications, these limitations often expose the disadvantages of single numerical calculation method, reduce the efficiency of simulation work, reduce the accuracy of simulation calculation and even make it impossible to carry out simulation work. In this paper, the advantages and disadvantages of the finite element method and the charge simulation method used in the numerical calculation of electromagnetic field are compared and analyzed. The theory and method of coupling simulation calculation of complex electric field model are proposed. The method is used to calculate the distortion electric field model of UHV AC transmission line. The results show that the coupling method of finite element method and simulated charge method can significantly improve the efficiency and accuracy of simulation calculation, and is more suitable for engineering practice.


To investigate the diversity of eco‐distinct isolates of Magnaporthe oryzae for their morphological, virulence and molecular diversity and relative distribution of five Avr genes.


Objective
To explore the shape and functional changes of the proprioceptors in the rabbit anterior cruciate ligament(ACL) caused by the ACL injure in the different parts.

Methods
Twenty eight New Zealand white rabbits were selected and divided into three experimental groups(12 in group A, 12 in group B and 4 in group C). Group A was partly injured medial ACL model. Group B was partly injured ACL model whose injured location was nearly one-third in tibia. Group C had no surgery. The two groups(group A and B) were examined with somatosensory evoked potential(SEPs) and electromyogram(EMG) and gold chloride staining method to evaluate the shape and functional changes of the nervous structure at 2, 4, 6 months post-operation(four rabbits were sacrificed at each time point).

Results
The SEPs and EMG's incubation period and wave amplitude degraded gradually with the prolongation of observing time, and the difference of incubation period and wave amplitude between the two groups(group A and B) and the control was statistically significant (all P values 0.05). The number of the proprioceptors in the group A and B gradually reduced with the prolongation of observing time (The two groups were compared with the control, all P values 0.05).

Conclusions
The proprioceptor number is decreased and the number of abnormal proprioceptor is increased after ACL being injured, and the function also weakened languishingly with the prolongation of observing time. But it does not have a statistically significant in the different injured part. The mechanism may be related to the blood vessels in ligament has a little influence on the overall supply of blood.

Key words:
Anterior cruciate ligament; Proprioception; Knee joint; Electromyogram; Evoked potential; Rabbits; Models, animal


In this paper, we design a compact UWOC transmitter based on LED array light source and mQAM-OFDM modulation using FPGA, and a verification system with the transmitter and a low-cost optical receiving module, is experimentally demonstrated. In this system, the LED array is used to enhance the optical power, and a free form lens is designed for beam forming. It is shown by experimental results that this system can achieve data rates up to 50 Mbps over a 5m underwater channel. In addition, the impacts of data rate and deviation of the optical receiver's position from the optical axis on the performance of communication system are also compared. This provides an idea for the practical design of compact UWOC system.


We present our automatic repair technique, ssFix, which uses syntactic code search to find candidate code that is bug-related and contains the correct fix from both the local project and an external code repository for bug repair. ssFix first identifies suspicious statements in the buggy program through fault localization. For each such statement, ssFix identifies a buggy code chunk which includes the context for the statement. Then ssFix performs code search to obtain candidate code chunks that are both structurally and conceptually similar to the buggy chunk from both the local project and the external code repository. For any of such candidate chunks, ssFix unifies the names used in the candidate chunk with those used in the buggy chunk, establishes the correlation between the two chunks via matching their chunk components as expressions and statements, and generates patches based on the syntactic differences between the chunk components. ssFix finally validates the generated patches with the test suite and reports the first patch that passes all the tests. We demonstrate the effectiveness of ssFix by running ssFix to repair 93 bugs in the Defects4J dataset: ssFix successfully produced correct patches for 22 bugs. Keywords-bug repair; code search; unification


Newly diagnosed patients with cancer require education about the disease, the available treatments and potential consequences of treatment. Greater understanding of cancer risk has been found to be associated with greater health‐related quality of life, improved psychological adjustment and greater health‐related behaviours. The aim of this sytematic review was to assess the effectiveness of educational interventions in improving subjective cancer risk perception and to appraise the quality of the studies.


Preparation of mullite ceramics by reaction-sintering of alumina silica shows the necessity of favoring densification over mullitisation. Different Al2O3/SiO2 ratios have been studied. The influence of additives, iron oxide and zirconium oxide, has been examined.


Chee-Kit Looi is Head of the Learning Sciences Lab of the National Institute of Education (LSL, NIE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He has over two decades of experience with educational technology research in research institutes and universities. He is an editorial member of the International Journal on AI & Education and the International Journal on CSCL. Peter Seow is a senior software engineer with the LSL, NIE. He has over 10 years of industrial experience in leading projects, consulting and systems development. Zhang BaoHui is an assistant professor in the Learning Sciences and Technologies Academic Group (LSTAG) and LSL, NIE, Nanyang Technological University (NTU). His current research foci are designing and assessing interactive environments when using computerbased modelling or mobile technologies for inquiry-based science learning. So Hyo-Jeong is an assistant professor in the LSTAG and LSL, NIE, NTU. Her research focuses on designing interactive online learning environments, and students' scientific knowledge building through collaborative inquiry. Wenli Chen is an assistant professor in the LSTAG and LSL, NIE, NTU. Her research interests and expertise are computermediated communication, virtual learning environment, mobile learning and community of learners. Lung-Hsiang Wong is an assistant professor in the LSTAG and LSL, NIE, NTU. His research interests are information and communication technology-enhanced Chinese language learning, teachers' professional development, agent technology for learning and mobile learning. Address for correspondence: LSL, NIE, NTU, 1 Nanyang Walk Singapore 637616. Email: email@example.com


In this paper, we introduce an efficient approach to multi-label image classification that is particularly suited for scenarios requiring rapid adaptation to new classes with minimal training data. Unlike conventional methods that rely solely on neural networks trained on known classes, our model integrates object detection and embedding techniques to allow for the fast and accurate classification of novel classes based on as few as one sample image. During training, we use either Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)- or Vision Transformer-based algorithms to convert the provided sample images of new classes into feature vectors. At inference, a multi-object image is analyzed using low-threshold object detection algorithms, such as YOLOS or CutLER, identifying virtually all object-containing regions. These regions are subsequently converted into candidate vectors using embedding techniques. The k-nearest neighbors are identified for each candidate vector, and labels are assigned accordingly. Our empirical evaluation, using custom multi-label datasets featuring random objects and backgrounds, reveals that our approach substantially outperforms traditional methods lacking object detection. Notably, unsupervised object detection exhibited higher speed and accuracy than its supervised counterpart. Furthermore, lightweight CNN-based embeddings were found to be both faster and more accurate than Vision Transformer-based methods. Our approach holds significant promise for applications where classes are either rarely represented or continuously evolving.


The aim of this research is to describe the form, function and meaning of treatment for bebainan disease. This research uses the theory of semiotic analysis. The method used is a qualitative method. The instruments used in this research were interviews, observation, in-depth literature study of informants. Determining informants used purposive sampling techniques. The results of this research are: first, treatment/cure for bebai disease, based on stories he has heard that bebai is made from various kinds of ingredients, including from the scrapes of dead babies, from the blood of people who died in accidents, there are also those who use ingredients from animals such as parts. certain of the horses so that they become jaran guyang, there are those who use white cloth which is tattooed in the form of rangda decorated with basic letters. Second, Tamba or serana is one unit as a tool that heals sick people, both support each other so that it can function optimally as a treatment


We study supergravity backgrounds encoded through the gauge/string correspondence by the SU(N) × SU(N) theory arising on N D3-branes on the conifold. As discussed in hep-th/9905104, the dynamics of this theory describes warped versions of both the singular and the resolved conifolds through different (symmetry breaking) vacua. We construct these supergravity solutions explicitly and match them with the gauge theory with different sets of vacuum expectation values of the bi-fundamental fields A1,A2,B1,B2. For the resolved conifold, we find a non-singular SU(2) × U(1) × U(1) symmetric warped solution produced by a stack of D3-branes localized at a point on the blown-up 2-sphere. It describes a smooth RG flow from AdS5 × T1,1 in the UV to AdS5 × S5 in the IR, produced by giving a VEV to just one field, e.g. B2. The presence of a condensate of baryonic operator detB2 is confirmed using a Euclidean D3-brane wrapping a 4-cycle inside the resolved conifold. The Green's functions on the singular and resolved conifolds are central to our calculations and are discussed in some detail.


Date: August 25 Place: Room 5234 (oral), Room 6310 (poster) Organizers: Norio Sahashi, Jae-Won Oh, Carmen Galán & Teiji Kondo Contact email address: email@example.com Purpose: 1. Clarify correlation with annual change and the seasonal variation of the allergenic pollen and spore, and the climate factors. 2. Compare the latest scattering tendency in the different location, and the characteristic scattering pattern by the area exists or not. 3. Explore the compatibility from comparison of the scattering pattern by the gravitational method and the volumetric one. 4. Verify correlation by hourly scattering pattern by automatic monitoring device and climate factor


AbstractA series of commercially available cemented carbides coated with single or composite layers of TiC, TiN, and Al2O3 were used to cut three types of steel, En 8 (080M40), En9 (070M55), and En24 (817M40). For comparison, two uncoated cemented carbides and some Al2O3-ceramic inserts were also tested. The worn surfaces were examined using optical and scanning electron microscopy techniques and tool/work interfacial conditions were evaluated from 'quick stop' experiments and tool temperature estimates. By linking this information with observed wear rates, various rake and flank wear mechanisms are proposed.


Selective laser melting (SLM) is a layered manufacturing process that allows the building of complex, lightweight and customized parts by consolidating successive layers of powder via melting with a laser. During the SLM process, the material experiences large localized temperature fluctuations in a short time. This causes high thermal-induced residual stresses that may result in unwanted part distortion and may affect fatigue strength of the part. Conventional thermo-mechanical FEM simulations show that distortion of AM parts tends to be a macroscopic phenomenon, which is mostly dependent on the hatching strategy and the geometry of the manufactured part. Since stress and temperature in a layer are affected only by a few neighbouring layers, a computationally-efficient multiscale method for the prediction of residual stresses and deformation for AM parts has been developed in [1]. The strains determined in the mesoscopic hatching model are applied as inherent strain in the macroscopic layer model via the inherent strain vector. Residual stresses due to SLM process should be accounted for when designing for fatigue in the absence of suitable post fabrication heat treatments. Generally, residual stresses are expected to be either detrimental on fatigue strength when tensile or positive when compressive. The complex link between the SLM process, induced residual stresses and fatigue response would benefit from the irreplaceable insight provided by experiments: this contribution integrates SLM process simulation for residual stresses and fatigue experiments. The residual stresses due to the fabrication of directional fatigue specimens are simulated using the inherent strains approach as implemented in the SIMUFACT software. A preliminary calibration phase of the scan strategy parameters is performed on cantilever specimens of prescribed geometry. A gas-atomized AlSi10Mg powder is processed in a SLM 280HL system (SLM Solutions Gmbh, Germany) to 3D print the cantilever beam specimens. Then they are separated from the build plate by cutting and the resulting deformation measured to compute the specific inherent strains simulation parameters. Four batches of miniature fatigue specimens oriented in four different directions with respect to build are produced with the SLM system with the frozen process parameters for AlSi10Mg. The as-built specimens of SLM AlSi10Mg are then tested in cyclic plane bending establishing a distinct directional fatigue behaviour, [2]. The directional fatigue behaviour is discussed considering the magnitude and sign of the simulated residual stresses in the crack initiation locations.


We present a general numerical method for investigating prescribed Ricci curvature problems on toric K\"ahler manifolds. This method is applied to two generalisations of Einstein metrics, namely Ricci solitons and quasi-Einstein metrics. We begin by recovering the Koiso--Cao soliton and the L\"u--Page--Pope quasi-Einstein metrics on $\mathbb{CP}^{2}\sharp\overline{\mathbb{CP}}^{2}$ (in both cases the metrics are known explicitly). We also find numerical approximations to the Wang--Zhu soliton on $\mathbb{CP}^{2}\sharp 2\overline{\mathbb{CP}}^{2}$ (here the metric is not known explicitly). Finally, a substantial numerical investigation of the quasi-Einstein equation on $\mathbb{CP}^{2}\sharp 2\overline{\mathbb{CP}}^{2}$ is conducted. In this case it is an open problem as to whether such metrics exist on this manifold. We find metrics that solve the quasi-Einstein equation to the same degree of accuracy as the approximations to the Wang--Zhu soliton solve the Ricci soliton equation.


Deregulation of energy markets force utilities to reengineer there metering processes. Classical meter technology migrates to metering systems by deploying state of the art communication technology. A fully automated communication path from the meter to subsequent systems such as billing, web server or SCADA is established. Those metering systems are controlled at headquarters via customized standard software packages. Latest solutions are discussed in the following article.


We investigate how collective modes and colored noise conspire to produce a beam halo with much larger amplitude than could be generated by either phenomenon separately. The collective modes are lowest-order radial eigenmodes calculated self-consistently for a configuration corresponding to a direct-current, cylindrically symmetric, warm-fluid Kapchinskij-Vladimirskij equilibrium. The colored noise arises from unavoidable machine errors and influences the internal space-charge force. Its presence quickly launches statistically rare particles to ever-growing amplitudes by continually kicking them back into phase with the collective-mode oscillations. The halo amplitude is essentially the same for purely radial orbits as for orbits that are initially purely azimuthal; orbital angular momentum has no statistically significant impact. Factors that do have an impact include the amplitudes of the collective modes and the strength and autocorrelation time of the colored noise. The underlying dynamics ensues because the noise breaks the Kolmogorov-Arnol'd-Moser tori that otherwise would confine the beam. These tori are fragile; even very weak noise will eventually break them, though the time scale for their disintegration depends on the noise strength. Both collective modes and noise are therefore centrally important to the dynamics of halo formation in real beams.


Background: Nursing documentation is defined as the record of nursing care that is planned and given to individual patients and clients by qualified nurses or other caregivers under the control of a qualified nurse. Purpose of the study: Assess the relation between quality of nursing documentation system and the continuity of patient care at Tanta university hospitals. Study design: Descriptive correlational design was utilized to conduct this study. Study setting: The study was conducted at Tanta University Hospitals affiliated to Ministry of Health. Study sample: A convenient sample of 80 nurse supervisors and simple random sample of 80 staff nurses in intensive care units. Data collection instruments: Data was collected using two instruments adapted by the investigator. The first instrument was a quality of nursing documentation questionnaires. The second instrument was Auditing continuity of patient care checklist. Results: The present study showed that the most of studied samples resulted in accepted level of nursing documentation quality and the majority of total studied samples resulted in average level of continuity of patient care. Conclusion: There was a highly statistically significant positive correlation between quality of nursing documentation and continuity of patient care. Recommendations: Encourage nurses to comply with standard of nursing documentation at intensive care units.


ABSTRACT This research was aimed to describe students' ability to write application letters. The design of this research was descriptive research. The number of population members was 270 students. To take the sample the  researcher used stratified random sampling technique. The data were collected through writing application letter. To make the test reliable, the writer used inter-rater method . The result of analysis demonstrated that the test was reliable. Then the test was valid in terms of content validity . To analyze the data, the researcher presented the raw score, calculated, mean and standard deviation, clasified the students into those who high, moderate, or low ability, and counted the percentage of students who got high, moderate, and low ability in writing application letter.The result of this study showed that in general the ability of second year students of SMA PGRI 1 Padang to write an application letter was moderate. It was proved that (68.5 %) students had moderate ability. Based on the research finding the researcher a suggest to the teacher to give the students  more exercises related to writing application letter. For the students, they should do more exercises to write an application letter in order to improve their skill. Key words: Writing ability, Application Letter.


Image manipulation is common in every field where visual imagery is found relevant because of the powerful photo editing software such as paint, Photoshop etc. With the advancements made in procedures of the image manipulation, the forgery detection seems more difficult. The image manipulation is performed for intentional entertainment purpose or for malicious purpose. An example for the image forgery in soviet history is Lennin's second anniversary of October revolution picture taken by L.Y. Leonidov given in figure 4.1. Now this picture is available in Art of Photography in Moscow, but it is found manipulated cropping of two eminent persons in the same original image which is ascertained by the Moscow media King, D., (2006). This manipulation falsifies the historical facts. This case is one example which may not seem important but the impact over the manipulation is obvious. Similar, hindrances increased the need for the forgery detection


An isopiestic technique has been used for observing the static control of humidity by saturated salt solutions and by paired salt hydrates. Many new values within the range 7% to 60% relative humidity at 25°C have been obtained, using saturated solutions of highly soluble salts. Difficulties encountered in using paired salt hydrates to control humidity at low levels have been described.


Hospital noise often exceeds recommended sound levels set by health organizations leading to reductions in speech intelligibility and communication breakdowns between doctors and patients. However, quantifying the impact of hospital noise on intelligibility has been limited by stimuli
 employed in prior studies, which did not include medically related terminology. To address this gap, a corpus of medically related sentences was developed. Word frequency, word familiarity, and sentence predictability, factors known to impact intelligibility of speech, were quantified. Nearly
 700 words were selected from the Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary. Word frequency was taken from Lexique, a 51-million-word corpus of American subtitles (Brysbaert & New, 2009). Word familiarity was rated by 41 monolingual listeners. The words were then used to construct 200 sentences.
 To determine sentence predictability, the sentences were presented to 48 participants with one word missing; their task was to fill in the missing word. Three 40 item sentence sets with different familiarity / frequency types (low/low, high/low, high/high) were selected, all with low predictability
 levels. These sentences and 40 standard speech perception sentences were recorded by two male and two female talkers. This corpus can be used to assess how hospital noise impacts intelligibility across listener populations. Brysbaert, M., & New, B. (2009). Moving beyond Kučera and
 Francis: A critical evaluation of current word frequency norms and the introduction of a new and improved word frequency measure for American English. Behavior Research Methods, 41, 977-990. doi:10.3758/BRM.41.4.977.


Artificial lift of oil by electric submersible pumps (ESP) is often complicated by free gas in production. Free gas content in production leads to ESP performance degradation in rate and head. Gas slip in the ESP impeller is one of the reasons of ESP performance degradation. Thus, the goal of the work is to determine the gas slip coefficient i.e. liquid holdup in the ESP impeller.
 It is known that a gas-liquid mixture (GLM) flow characterized by a slippage effect. Gas slippage relative to the liquid determines the GLM structure (bubble, dispersed-bubble, slug, stratified or annular), as well as the difference between the GLM densities calculated by liquid holdup or liquid volume content. Special stand was designed and created to determine the liquid holdup at the Department of Oil Fields Development and Operation of Gubkin University. Liquid holdup in the impeller of the ESP was measured by the method of cutting off the flow.
 This paper shows the results of experimental studies of liquid holdup and gas slip velocity in the ESP impeller (ESP5-50) at a rotational speed n = 2997 rpm, at an absolute intake pressure Pin = 0.4 MPa. The dependence of the liquid holdup on liquid volume content (i.e. the dependence of the gas void fraction on gas volume fraction) was determined for the model GLM "water-air", "water-surfactant-air" with different foaming capacity. The degradation of the ESP characteristics, boundaries of surging and gas locking limits are determined taking into account liquid holdup. The dependence of gas holdup was experimentally obtained over the entire range of ESP operation (from 0.5∙Qopt to Qmax). A comparison of the obtained correlation with existing models is presented too.
 A new correlation for predicting liquid holdup in the ESP impeller for the low-rate wells operation is obtained. A new approach to determining the liquid holdup and consequently gas slip velocity in the ESP impeller is proposed.


Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to develop a performance measurement (PM) framework for Australasian nonprofit organisations (NPOs) involved in healthcare, and operational descriptions for each PM dimension within this framework.

Design/methodology/approach

Literature relating to the balanced scorecard and other PM frameworks was examined to develop an initial conceptual model, and this model was substantially improved by collecting qualitative data from nine Australian and New Zealand healthcare NPOs using a case study approach.

Findings

The study identifies nine causally related PM dimensions: mission, strategy, organisational capabilities, infrastructure and people development (people and information), financial health, processes, and stakeholder satisfaction (clients, people, and donors). The study also recognised that "Mission" and "Strategy" should be PM dimensions and that healthcare NPOs should focus on satisfying its people, not only donors and clients. Additionally, 41 operational descriptions are developed for each of these dimensions and can enable detailed PM items to be derived by organisations.

Originality/value

The study is the first study that has been undertaken to develop a PM framework for the Australasian NPOs to a level that it can be readily used by the practitioners (following customisation to their own specific context). The developed model also serves as a basis for future quantitative academic research aimed at testing and empirical validation of the conceptual model.


Synopsis: The purpose of the present study is to investigate the main manufacturing and microstructural features of as-rolled dual phase (DP) steels, characterized by a combination of excellent ductility, formability, and high strength. It was revealed by a laboratory simulation that the DP steel with required properties could be obtained, when a suitable combination of chemical compositions and rolling conditions was chosen. That is, 0.05% C-1.5%Si-1.6%Mn-0.5%Cr-0.25%Mo steel, 0.05%C-1.5%Si-2.2%Mn-0.20%Mo steel or 0.05%C2.1%Si-2.4%Mn steel should be finish-rolled just above Ar3 point and coiled below 600•Ž. From the investigation of transformation behavior by dilatometric test and micro-segregation analysis by EPMA, the mechanism for generating the DP structure is considered as follows: Silicon is so effective for polygonal ferrite to be formed quickly and easily even under an accelerated cooling by water spray on a runout table, and at the same time carbon is enriched in the untransformed austenite portion. Most of the austenite transforms to martensite at the range of temperature lower than 300•Ž even under slow cooling after coiling, due to the increased hardenability attained by the enriched carbon and the presence of molybdenum, chromium, manganese, etc. in solution. The constituents of untempered martensite and high volume fraction of polygonal ferrite bring about the same mechanical properties in as-rolled DP steels as in heat-treated DP steels. For example, yield ratio of the former is as low as that of the latter. Also, a retained austenite was observed in as-rolled DP steels by transmission electron microscopy and, from an X-ray diffraction technique, the volume fraction was found to be 1-3%.


The implantation of boron and other elements affects the physical and electrical properties of semiconductor materials. The quality of semiconductor devices is determined mainly by the dose and depth distribution of boron in the near-surface region and across interfacial boundaries. The capability to measure these quantities accurately is becoming more important with the production of {open_quotes}shallow junction{close_quotes} devices. A number of techniques are available to measure the boron doses and depth distribution in semiconductor materials, some of which have been developed in the past two decades. Traditionally, the semiconductor industry uses second ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS) for this purpose.


Obesity is a multifactorial disease related to development of diseases such as hypertension, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancers. Structures of the central nervous system, particularly the hypothalamus, are involved in food intake control. The transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a promising noninvasive brain stimulation technique in the treatment of binge eating and metabolic disorders, since it promotes neuroplasticity pathways involved with feeding behavior. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of exposure to tDCS in rats subjected to obesity model. All procedures were approved by the Ethics Committee on Animal Use (CEUA / HCPA: number 110455). Forty male Wistar rats were divided into 4 groups: standard diet + sham tDCS (SDS), standard diet + tDCS (SDT), hypercaloric diet + sham tDCS (HDS) and hypercaloric diet + tDCS (HDT). Forty days after exposure to hypercaloric diet and previously exposure to the tDCS treatment, rats were exposed to the open field test (OF) to evaluate locomotor and exploratory activities and to elevated plus maze test (EPM) to assess anxietylike behavior. Twenty-four hours after the behavioral tests, the repeated bicephalic tDCS treatment was started, 20-minute/day for 8 days, using 0,5mA of intensity in the active treatment or exposure to electrodes turned off in sham animals. Twenty-four hours after the last tDCS session the behavioral tests (OF and EPM) were repeated and the 48 hours before the palatable food test (PFT) was performed. For biochemical assays, the rats were killed 24 hours after the (PFT). Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), interleukin 10 (IL-10), interleukin 1 beta (IL-1β), and tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha (TNF-α) levels in the cortex were determined by EnzymeLinked Immunosorbent Assay test (ELISA). Delta weight, Lee index, tissue weight, cytokines and BDNF levels were analyzed by one-way ANOVA. It was employed a Kruskal-Wallis test for analysis of the data of the OF, EPM and PFT between the groups and to analyze the data pre-treatment and post-treatment was used Wilcoxon test. Significance diference was defined at P <0.05. Our results demonstrate that bicephalic tDCS treatment reduces the food craving in obese animals after fasting and it reverts the increased Lee index and the weight of visceral adipose tissue in these animals. Furthermore, it was found that exposure to hypercaloric diet decreases BDNF and IL-10 in the cortex. On the other hand, bicephalic tDCS treatment reduces IL-1β levels and TNF-α in the cortex. Exposure to hypercaloric diet had anxiolytic effect that was reversed by treatment with tDCS. Therefore, exposure to repeated treatment with tDCS appears to act in pathways related to eating behavior modulating changes neuroplastic obesity features.


Ms. B, age 31, experienced her first depressive episode at age 24 during her second year of law school. These episodes are characterized by insomnia, sadness, guilt, suicidal ideation, and impaired concentration that affect her ability to function at work and interfere with her ability to maintain relationships. She has no history of mania, hypomania, or psychosis. Ms. B has approximately 2 severe episodes a year, lasting 8 to 10 weeks. She has failed adequate ([greater than or equal to] 6 week) trials of sertraline, 200 mg/d; venlafaxine XR, 300 mg/d; bupropion XL, 450 mg/d; and vortioxetine, 20 mg/d. Adjunctive treatments were not well tolerated; lithium caused severe nausea and aripiprazole lead to intolerable akathisia. Psychotherapy was ineffective. A trial of electroconvulsive therapy relieved her depression but resulted in significant memory impairment. Is ketamine a treatment option for Ms. B? Ketamine, an N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist, was approved by the FDA in 1970 as a dissociative anesthetic. It proved useful in military battlefield situations. The drug then became popular as a "club drug" and is used recreationally as a dissociative agent. It recently has been used clinically for treating post-operative pain and treatment-resistant depression (TRD). It has shown efficacy for several specific symptom clusters in depression, including anhedonia and suicidality. Several small randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials of ketamine--some of which studied TRD--have reported antidepressant effects after a single IV dose of 0.5 mg/kg in depressed patients. (1,2) The response rate, defined as a 50% reduction in symptoms, is reported to be as high as 50% to 71% twenty-four hours after infusion, with significant improvements noted in some patients after just 40 minutes. (1) These effects, peaking at 24 hours, last [greater than or equal to] 72 hours in approximately 50% of patients, but gradually return to baseline over 1 to 2 weeks (Figure (1)). The most common post-infusion adverse effects include: * dissociation * dizziness * blurred vision * poor concentration * nausea. Transient sedation and psychotomimetic symptoms, such as hallucinations, abnormal sensations, and confusion, also have been noted, as well as a small but significant increase in blood pressure shortly after infusion. (1) Use of repeated doses of ketamine also has been studied, although larger and extended-duration studies are lacking. Two groups (3,4) examined thrice weekly infusions (N = 24) and 1 group (5) studied twice weekly infusions of 0.5 mg/kg for 2 weeks (6 and 4 doses, respectively) (N = 10). With thrice weekly dosing, 79% to 90% of patients showed symptomatic response overall and 25% to 100% of patients saw improvement after the first dose. (3,4) Of the 20 patients who responded, 65% were still reporting improved symptoms 2 weeks after the last infusion and 40% showed response for >28 days. (3,4) With twice weekly dosing, (5) the response rate was 80% in 10 patients, while 5 patients (50%) achieved remission, lasting at least 28 days in 2 patients. The authors of a recent Cochrane review (6) evaluated ketamine for treating depression and concluded that, although there is evidence for ketamine's efficacy early in treatment, effects are less certain after 2 weeks post-treatment. The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health also conducted an appraisal (7) of ketamine for treating a variety of mental illnesses and similarly noted that, despite evidence in acute studies, (1) the role of the drug in clinical practice is unclear and (2) further comparative studies, as well as longer-term studies, are needed. Last, the American Psychiatric Association Council of Research Task Force on Novel Biomarkers and Treatments (1) conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis, whose authors concluded that ketamine produces a rapid and robust antidepressant effect that appears to be transient. …


We have proposed a switched-current (SI) analog programmable finite-impulse-response (FIR) filter for software-defined radio. The programmable tap coefficient circuit for programmable operation of the SI FIR filter has also been proposed. The 4-bit-resolution tap coefficient circuit has been designed and fabricated using 0.35 µm complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor technology. The current error between measured and calculated tap coefficient circuits has been less than 2%. The radio frequency/intermediate frequency SI band-pass filter has been designed using the measured tap coefficients. The designed SI FIR filter has a frequency response as well as calculated tap coefficients. The maximum operating frequency of the proposed SI FIR filter using 0.13 µm CMOS technology has been estimated to be greater than 10 GHz with circuit simulation.


Fully automated video based pedestrian detection and tracking is a challenging task with many practical and important applications. We present our work aimed to allow robust and simultaneously close to real-time tracking of pedestrians. The presented approach is stable to occlusions, lighting conditions and is generalized to be applied on arbitrary video data. The core tracking approach is built upon tracking-by-detections principle. We describe our cascaded HOG detector with successive CNN verification in detail. For the tracking and re-identification task, we did an extensive analysis of appearance based features as well as their combinations. The tracker was tested on many hours of video data for different scenarios; the results are presented and discussed.


Increase globalisation contributes to the continuing growth in maritime transportation and its high potential for development by optimising fleet utilisation. We consider the multi-product maritime inventory routing problem with varying consumption rates. The objective is to minimize total route, discharge and inventory surplus costs. Despite there being a formulation solving the same problem, it would seem intuitively simple to design heuristics to approximately solve the problem, however it is not. We propose three multi-stage heuristics, which we formulated as a series of mixed integer programming subproblems. The heuristics were implemented, solved using Xpress-MP's embedded branch and bound search with data sets derived from a real industrial application, and their performances compared. The computational results suggest many advantages and disadvantages however each heuristic's unique formulation can be beneficial for certain problem scenarios. keywords : inventory routing, maritime routing, maritime scheduling, multiple products, heuristics, multi-stage mixed integer program Chapter


Summary The effect of single-phase fluid saturation on a rock's bulk modulus is well understood using Gassmann's equation. However when multiple fluids are involved the behaviour is not as well understood. Several fluid mixing averages have been suggested (Voigt, Reuss, Hill), and each apply in certain situations, however it is often not clear which model to select in a specific scenario and in some scenarios none of the models are accurate. The critical factor in deciding which average to use depends on the way the fluids are spatially distributed within the rock. We have applied elastic finite difference computational modelling to many different fluid distribution scenarios and have replicated behaviour described by various theoretical, empirical and lab data results, as well as generating results that span the space between these models. Importantly, our results compare well with observations in lab experiments, without relying on poroelastic or squirt-flow models which require parameters that are difficult to estimate for real reservoirs. Our elastic scattering approach is less computationally expensive than poroelastic modelling and can be more easily applied to actual reservoir rock and fluid distributions. Our results provide us with a powerful new method to analyse and predict the effects of multiple fluids and 'patchy' saturation on saturated rock bulk moduli and velocity. They also challenge traditional assumptions about the controlling factors on saturated bulk moduli suggesting it is more dominantly affected by the spatial fluid distribution properties rather than pore-scale fluid flow effects.


9061 Background: Age was reported as a possible prognostic factor in STS for OS. The goal of this study is to study the impact of age on therapeutic, OS, SS in a population of 1568 STS patients treated from 1980 to 1999 and registered in the GSF data base. Methods: The OS and SS analyses was examined using log-rank test and cox's model respectively for univariate and multivariate analysis. Difference were considered to be statistically significant when the p-value was 0,01 or less. Results: The two groups are statically similar except for surgery (group A 83% of R0 VS group B 76% of R0) and the use of chemotherapy (group A 44% of ct VS group B 19% of ct). In a univariate analysis, in term of overall survival, specific survival and disease free survival the following parameters are statically significant: age (p<10–6), location (p<10–3) tumor size (p<10–6), histological limits (p<10–6), ct (p<10–3), tumor grade (p<10–6). In a multivariate analysis for the two groups, grade III, resection R1 or R2, trunk lo...


Kenzo is a Symbolic Computation System devoted to Algebraic Topology that works with the main mathematical structures used in this discipline. In this paper, we present OpenMath Content Dictionaries for each mathematical structure in Algebraic Topology the Kenzo system works with. Besides, how using them to interoperate with a particular Theorem Prover and to obtain certified calculations from Kenzo is explained.


As-prepared PbS films independently on the method of preparation are all p-type semiconductors. The intrinsic p-type of PbS thin films without sensibilization is supposed to originate from the native defects i.e. structural imperfections and shallow accepter levels due to Pb vacancies. The large relativistic splitting in band structure of PbS materials makes them preferable for band gap engineering. In this work PbS thin films were prepared via direct plasma-chemical interaction of lead and sulfur vapors. Then, the as-prepared layers were annealed in argon-oxygen plasma. Optical emission spectroscopy (OES) was used to identify the exited species and to assume the possible mechanisms of plasma-chemical reactions. The changes in electrical properties and structure were also studied.


There is a scientific principle basis of the overla pp ing subject of tourist and anthropology. And relation among the tourist, tourism subject and anthropology are inner interrelated. The interdisciplinary methodol ogy of tourist and anthropology consists of pluralistic culture congruency, "lo cal knowledge" and "culture mainstay each other".


Sketching is a software synthesis approach where the programmer develops a partial implementation - a sketch - and a separate specification of the desired functionality. The synthesizer then comple...


This reseach conducted in Unit Pelaksana Teknis Daerah Balai Budidaya Ikan (UPTD BBI ) Sicincin Sub-Proeinoe Padang Pariaman date of October 7 st-5 th 2013.Purpose of this reaseach 15 for the employing the effect of the extra use of Guava capacity drops carp eggs (Osphoronemus gouramy Lac) This research used in experimental method with a completely random design consisting of 4 trectments and 3 replicetion..A trectment alone for the trectment (without Immersion). B(immersion in a solution and guava extra 0,6g/l water).C (soak 0,7g/l water).D (soak it in 0,8g/l water. Resvectively each treatment were immersed for 20 minutes.Parameter measured were the capacity drops carp eggs. The resu it this research showed that the capacity carp eggs between treatments gave significantly different result (Significant).In this case the capccity drops carp eggs which is the highest dose 0,7g/l water or 91,5 % KATA KUNCI : Daun Jambu Biji Telur Ikan Gurami


This project focused on evaluating the effects of asphalt content and air-void content on the fatigue response of a typical California asphalt concrete mix. Recommendations for improving the fatigue performance of asphalt concrete pavements in California were also developed. The project, in addition, demonstrated and adapted the testing and analysis procedures developed for use in the design and analysis of California asphalt concrete mixes and asphalt concrete pavements for improved fatigue performance.


Sweet corn (Zea mays L) is one of the most important cereals, which ranks fifth in India for production. Maize is grown in 6.5 million ha in India and 45 per cent of the total production is consumed as food. It is used as food, feed and forage as well as in industry. India is the homeland of grain legumes including pulses which play vital role in cereal based Indian diet. Green gram (Vigna radiata L.) locally known as 'Moong' in India covering an area of 3.1 million hectares with a total production of 1.1 million tonnes with the average of 425 ha (Anon., 2004). Intercropping has been recognised as a beneficial system of crop production and is one of the potent means of better utilization of resources and higher crop production per unit time and area, which can provide substantial yield advantages compared to sole cropping. These advantages may be specially important because they are achieved not by means of costly inputs, but by the simple expedient of growing crop together (Willey, 1979). In new system, the modification of planting geometry may helps in accommodating the companion crop. By adopting the appropriate planting pattern the total productivity can be enhanced.


This paper considers the computational hardness of computing expected outcomes and deciding almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs. We show that deciding almost-sure termination and deciding whether the expected outcome of a program equals a given rational value is $\Pi^0_2$-complete. Computing lower and upper bounds on the expected outcome is shown to be recursively enumerable and $\Sigma^0_2$-complete, respectively.


ABSTRACT This paper presents an experimental study of a passive version of the Water-jet vortex generator to reduce the drag force over a NACA 661-012 hydrofoil. The passive blowing used the overpressure zone at the leading edge of the hydrofoil's lower surface as a source of water jets that create jets on the upper surface of the hydrofoil using the blowing tubes. The experimental tests were carried out in the towing tank in Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) with a hydrofoil model with a 250-mm long chord at Reynolds numbers of (1.4 105 < Re < 2.8 105). It was found that the passive water-jet vortex-generator reduces the drag force with a slight lift decrease.


In multi-target tracking (MTT), the imprecise model for sensor characteristics might result in poor performance. The Variational Bayesian labeled multi-Bernoulli (VB-LMB) filter based on Gamma distribution can handle this problem. However, the predictive likelihood of the existing VB-LMB filter is simply treated as a Gaussian, which is inaccurate. In this paper, a VB-LMB filter with inverse Wishart distribution is presented to perform MTT under the unknown sensor characteristics. The measurement noise covariance is modeled as an inverse Wishart (IW) distribution. This distribution has potential to deal with the full noise covariance matrix compared with the Gamma distribution. Since the state and the measurement noise covariance are coupled, the updated equation can be solved by variational Bayesian (VB) method. The predictive likelihood is calculated via minimizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence by the VB lower bound. A MTT scenario is used to evaluate the proposed method. Simulation results show that our approach has better performance than the existing VB-LMB filter with the Gamma distribution.


Refractory anemia with ringed sideroblasts and marked thrombocytosis is a condition with both myelodysplastic and myeloproliferative features. This study indicates that a considerable proportion of patients with this condition carry the unique V617F mutation of JAK2, and that the mutant allele burden increases over time. See related perspective on page 4. Background Refractory anemia with ringed sideroblasts and marked thrombocytosis (RARS-T) was recently shown to be a JAK2-V617F mutation-related disorder. To determine the frequency and the prognostic significance of this mutation, we retrospectively evaluated 23 patients with platelet counts more than 600 × 109/L, 15% ringed sideroblasts or more, and at least erythroid marrow dysplasia. Design and Methods An allele-specific polymerase chain reaction for JAK2-V617F was used to determine the allelic ratio of the mutated JAK2 allele in DNA samples extracted from bone marrow biopsies. Hematologic and survival data of the JAK2-V617F positive vs. the JAK2-V617F negative patients were statistically analyzed. Allele-specific polymerase chain reaction was also used to screen for MPL-W515 mutations. Results The JAK2-V617F mutation was present in 11 patients (48%) and was associated with significantly higher erythrocyte and white blood cell counts (p=0.009 and 0.011, respectively). In 6/11 RARS-T patients the allelic ratio of JAK2-V617F was above 50%, indicating the presence of cells homozygous for the mutation. In two of these patients a transition from JAK2-V617F heterozygosity to homozygosity was documented and was accompanied by rising platelet counts in sequential samples. The MPL-W515L mutation was detected in one JAK2-V617F negative patient. The relative risk of death was found to be lower in the mutation-positive group than in the mutation-negative group. Conclusions RARS-T patients with JAK2-V617F have a more favorable prognosis than those without the JAK2 mutation. The prevalence of homozygous JAK2-V617F mutation in RARS-T suggests that this entity is biologically distinct from essential thrombocythemia.


Early recognition and multidisciplinary management of frail patients in acute care is a national priority. This is reflected in the NHS 10 year plan, NHS Improvement (NHSI) and Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) ambitions for acute care. The Sunderland Royal Hospital acute frailty service currently reviews frail patients on the Medical Admissions Unit (MAU) each morning. Analysis of our emergency department (ED) data demonstrates that most frail patients arrive to the ED between 12 pm and 18 pm leading to a cohort of frail patients who are not receiving comprehensive geriatric assessment early in their patient journey. Here, we present our piloted expansion of the frailty service into the ED.

 Currently the frailty service is provided on MAU between 9 am and 1 pm. The pilot service expansion ran for five weeks between September and October 2018 and involved the acute frailty team being available to ED and MAU from Monday to Friday 0830 am to 1700 pm. Frail patients were proactively identified using the ED patient tracker as well being referred to the team by ED staff.

 During the pilot, the team reviewed 131 additional patients. 85% were seen in ED. 61 patients were discharged directly from ED and 33 patients were admitted directly to a back of house medical ward resulting in reduced MAU occupancy rates in the evenings. Concerns that bringing full MDT assessment into ED might result in increased time spent in ED were proven to be unfounded. Median length of stay for admitted patients was low with 49% discharged within 7 days and 9.9% 30 day readmission rate. Feedback from ED and community teams was positive.

 It is recognised that early CGA is beneficial for patients with frailty syndromes who are admitted to hospital. Most commonly, this takes place on medical admissions wards. Through this pilot, we have demonstrated significant added benefits of bringing the acute frailty team and crucially CGA into the emergency department setting. As well as increased discharges directly from ED, we demonstrated a reduction in length of stay and readmissions as well as improved patient flow. Our aim is to permanently implement a seven day frailty service with input on MAU as well as ED.


In this paper, which is presumably the first of a series of process studies, the authors focus on the spatial, seasonal and interannual variability of chlorophyll a and of the concurrent patterns of Net Primary Production (NPP), as simulated by the model. They compare their results with satellite derived pigment distributions and NPP, and with the available scattered in situ observations of Primary Production based on C14 incubations.


With the increase of human activities especially in agriculture and industry, there was an increase in water consumption, which is distributed on planet earth in only 2.53% so sweet. Therefore, any project that involves the reduction or reuse of water is critical. The planned reuse already being adopted in many companies, favoring a reduction in water consumption and a reduction in pollution degree that it can generate. Therefore, this study aimed to characterize the effluent from a food industry Taquari Valley RS, analyzing the effluent treatment system currently used by the company in order to reuse it. Analyses of the effluent of all the treatment steps for diagnosing the efficiency of the treatment plant. The parameters chosen for physicochemical analysis were BOD, COD, Chloride, Total Phosphorus, Total Nitrogen, Suspended Solids, Volatile Solids, Total Solids, Fixed Solids, pH, turbidity and Total Organic Carbon. For microbiological characterization were analyzed Total Coliforms and fecal coliform. By the method jar test, testing was conducted with the coagulating agent aluminum sulphate and ferric chloride, with the intention to compare the efficacy in treating the effluent. With these results, the company can meet some needs of non-potable water with reuse water.


21st century is an era in which the internet and transportation are intensively linked. Through this tendency, local culture can develop toward globalization. Globalization is the focus of contemporary culture, and cultural practice is the core of globalization [1]. Based on the globalization tendency and social and cultural theories, cultural products have been one of the main product development. To carry out the designing form of cultural products, we must first discuss the cultural definitions and the cultural characteristics. This study utilize festival as the structure, based on the semiotics of message communication and introduce the six types of Chinese character development background and its classification principles then select the feature of Mid-Autumn Festival to create a series of product design methods, in order to trace back each culture meaning in the Instructional design. Finally, the established design methods were used to verify the six types of Chinese character proposed in this study, which are the feasibility Pictograms, Self-explanatory, Determinative-phonetics, Associative compounds, Mutually interpretative symbols and Phonetic loans. It is expected to provide some contribution to future design related practitioners some instructional design and design process applications.


. We prove that a principal quasi-ideal of a non-commutative free semigroup has cohomological dimension 1 if and only if it is free.


Background Sickness absence and low social class are important predictors of disability retirement (DR). Social class is associated with the duration and the cause of work disability; those with the lower social class often have longer sickness absence (SA) histories and more severe illnesses. However, it is unclear how the length and the diagnosis of SA together predict DR, especially in different social classes, which is where this paper seeks to find an answer. Methods We apply Cox regression model on multiregister data from The Social Insurance Institution of Finland, Finnish Centre for Pensions and Statistics Finland. Our data consists of 25-62 years old Finns, who were not on any pension at the end of 2006 (N=1,727,644). Information on socio-demographic factors was from the year 2006. Social class was measured as occupational class. Information on SA spells and their diagnoses were measured at the end of the year 2005, and the spells were divided in five categories according to the length of accumulated SA days, separately for each diagnostic group. The follow-up period for DR started after a ''wash-out period'' of one year, in 2007 and ended at the end of the year 2014. The analyses were conducted separately for men and women. Our preliminary results show that the more SA days the participants had, the higher was the risk of DR. Occupational class differences in the risk of DR were clear, and they changed as the SA days accumulated. Further, the risk of DR varied depending on the diagnosis of SA and the association was different for different occupational classes (cid:2) and national authorities, as well as a more effective commitment of social parts and enterprises on the topic of aging of the workforce, has been recommended. Our findings indicate that AWs are not appropriately aware of the risks associated with occupational exposure to solar radiation, and eventually report inadequate skin cancer prevention practices. Since SPPS found significant predictors in individual factors, tailored interventions and training may contribute to fill knowledge gaps and raise the concerns of AWs towards work-related dermatological disorders.


: Mitochondrial DNA phylogenetic and phylogeographic studies have been very useful in reconstructing the history of modern humans. In addition, recent advances in ancient DNA techniques have enabled direct glimpses of the human past. Taking advantage of these possibilities, I carried out a spatiotemporal study of the rare and little-studied mtDNA haplogroup U8. Today, U8, represented by its main branches U8a and U8b, has a wide western Eurasian range but both with average frequencies below 1%. It is known that, in Paleolithic times, U8 reached high frequencies in European hunter-gatherers. However, it is pertinent to precise that only lineages belonging to U8a and U8c, a sister branch of U8b, were detected at that time. In spite of its wide geographic implantation, U8c was extinct after the Last Glacial Maximum, but U8a subsisted until the present day, although it never reached its high Paleolithic frequencies. U8a is detected mainly in northern and western Europe including the Basques, testifying to a minor maternal Paleolithic continuity. In this respect, it is worth mentioning that Basques show more U8-based affinities with continental European than with Mediterranean populations. On the contrary, coalescent ages of the most ancient U8b clades point to a Paleolithic diversification in the Caucasus and the Middle Eastern areas. U8b-derived branches reached eastern Europe since the Mesolithic. Subsequent Neolithic and post-Neolithic expansions widen its ranges in continental Europe and the Mediterranean basin, including northern Africa, albeit always as a minor clade that accompanied other, more representative, mitochondrial lineages.


In this paper, we extend ∂ steepest descent method to study the Cauchy problem for the nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger (NNLS) equation with weighted Sobolev initial data iqt + qxx + 2σq (x, t)q(−x, t) = 0, q(x, 0) = q0(x), where q0(x) ∈ L(R) ∩ L(R). Based on the spectral analysis of the Lax pair, the solution of the Cauchy problem is expressed in terms of solutions of a Riemann-Hilbert problem, which is transformed into a solvable model after a series of deformations. Finally, we obtain the asymptotic expansion of the Cauchy problem for the NNLS equation in solitonic region. The leading order term is soliton solutions, the second term is the error term is the interaction between solitons and dispersion, the error term comes from the corresponding ∂̄ equation. Compared to the asymptotic results on the classical NLS equation, the major difference is the second and third terms in asymptotic expansion for the NNLS equation were affected by a function Imν(ξ) for the stationary phase point ξ.


Background: Little accurate information is available about the symptomatology of real-life panic attacks and about how well they are reproduced by an experimental model such as the 35% CO2 challenge. Method: Real-life panic symptoms were assessed in a group of 67 panic disorder patients, using daily life monitoring. Panic symptoms elicited by a 35% CO2 challenge were assessed in 61 panic disorder patients, and their frequency was compared with the real-life symptoms. Results: The most frequent real-life symptoms were palpitations, dizziness and trembling. The 35% CO2 challenge reproduced well the majority of real-life symptoms. Conclusion: The findings suggest that the 35% CO2 challenge is a marker for spontaneous panic attacks, which are considered the core of panic disorder.


Chip multi-processors (CMP) have attracted much attention since they achieve higher performance not by raising operating frequency but by utilizing a number of transistors in parallel. However, simply increasing the number of processor elements (PE) will result in raising power consumption. This work presents a power-aware compiler controllable heterogeneous CMP and its performance and power evaluation with the OSCAR (optimally scheduled advanced multiprocessor) parallelizing compiler (K. Ishizaka et al., 2004).


Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS) sources found within 4 degrees of l = 125 deg, b = 2 deg on the 3rd HCON 60 micron Sky Brightness Images were observed at the Very Large Array (VLA). Regions were to be identified where massive stars are forming by looking for small areas of radio continuum emissions. The IRAS sources could be divided into three groups by their IRAS 12 micron/25 micron and 60 micron/100 micron color. The group identified with star forming regions contained essentially all of the objects with extended radio emission. In all of these cases the extended radio emission showed a morphology consistent with the identification of these objects as HII regions. The conclusion drawn is that star formation regions can be distinguished from other objects by their infrared colors.


sex in any kind of adequate way. Her first biographer observes, ' ' 'love, ' in the conventional literary sense, scarcely figures in her novels. "2 A later critic says, "She was not able to portray . . . passionate love between a man and a woman."3 More commonly the opinion appears in less direct form, as a sense of "emotional failure"4 at the center of her work or as an echo of Malcolm Cowley's early complaint of "devitalized good taste"5?what Mary Ellman calls Cather's "bluff, middy blouse suspicions of both sexuality and vulgari? ty."6 And the view seems to lurk behind such guarded and respectful praise of Cather as this from Katherine Anne Porter, currently reprinted on the back cover of the Sentry edition of My Antonia: "She is a curiously immovable shape, monumental, virtue itself in her art and a symbol of virtue?like certain churches, in fact, or exemplary women, revered and neglected."7 A good deal of critical opinion interprets the author along with her work. Cather's most recent biographer, James Woodress, says, "It seems perfectly clear that she simply had no need for heterosexual relationships; she was married to her art." He notes that her fictional artists never have happy marriages, and that in general marriage appears as a dismal affair: "It is a rare novel or story of hers in which there is not an unhappy marriage either at the core or the periphery of the work."8 Other critics go further, speculating that Cather's own need to avoid sex led to falsification and evasion in her rendering of human relationships. Quentin Anderson characterizes her view of the self and the world as pr?adolescent, a disguised refusal to face change, sex, death: "Willa Cather carried on a masquerade which made it appear that she was


Changes of the thin runoff flow in slopes depths and coarse degrees were discussed.The results showed that the critical value of Reynolds under 5° slope degree and 3 mm water depth when runoff flow was stratified.The value of Reynolds was directly proportional to water depths and slope degrees,but indireetly proportional to coarse degree.Effect of water degree on it largely exceeded others. A calculation formula of Reynolds value is as follows: Re =2.331 H 1.41 n -0.973 S 0.486 -288.17


We give a new algorithm using linear approximation and lattice reduction to efficiently calculate all rational points of small height near a given plane curve C. For instance, when C is the Fermat cubic, we find all integer solutions of |x + y − z| < M with 0 < x ≤ y < z < N in heuristic time ≪ (logN)M provided M ≫ N , using only O(log N) space. Since the number of solutions should be asymptotically proportional to M log N (as long as M < N), the computational costs are essentially as low as possible. Moreover the algorithm readily parallelizes. It not only yields new numerical examples but leads to theoretical results, difficult open questions, and natural generalizations. We also adapt our algorithm to investigate Hall's conjecture: we find all integer solutions of 0 < |x − y| ≪ x with x < X in time O(X logX). By implementing this algorithm with X = 10 we shattered the previous record for x/|x − y|. The O(X logX) bound is rigorous; its proof also yields new estimates on the distribution mod 1 of (cx) for any positive rational c.


360 Background: Limited data is available for neoadjuvant treatment of borderline resectable (BRPC) and locally advanced (LAPC) pancreatic cancer. We update our institutional outcomes with a neoadjuvant chemotherapy and stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) approach. Methods: We performed an IRB-approved analysis of all BRPC and LAPC patients treated with our departmental treatment protocol. After staging, medically fit patients underwent chemotherapy for 2-3 months, with regimen at the discretion of the treating medical oncologist (FOLFIRINOX, GTX, gem/abraxane, or gemcitabine alone). Patients then received SBRT delivered in 5 consecutive daily fractions with median radiation doses of 30 Gy to tumor and 40 Gy dose painted to tumor-vessel interfaces. This was followed by restaging imaging for possible resection. Overall survival (OS), event free survival (EFS), and locoregional control (LRC) rates were estimated and compared by Kaplan-Meier and log-rank methods. Results: We identified 159 patients, 110 BR...


In this paper, we presented an online image retrieval system that allows high-quality museum images and associated information to be made available over networks. Case-based reasoning is considered more efficient and of great benefit in this area. This is mainly because users both in indexing and retrieval processes, tend to use old cases by associating images that reveal similar features. In this work, we present an application of our integrated approach to image indexing and retrieval. The underlying technique uses high-level features to find the most possible assignment to the presented image description. It applies fuzzy reasoning to convert the quantitative attributes into qualitative terms for indexing and retrieval. To facilitate the storage and retrieval, we adopted XML technology.


We obtain two partition identities and show their equivalence to two identities of Euler. Our work is a sequel to the recent work of J. P. O. Santos 3].


The initial nucleation of Fe onto the (2×1) reconstructed Ge(001) surface is studied. Uniformly sized two-dimensional Fe dots are shown to nucleate. They have an apparent corrugation height ∼1.1A and lateral dimensions ∼12×8A2. Further to their uniform size, due to their registry with respect to the substrate, they are shown to nucleate on a single equivalent surface site. It is suggested that their stability is due to either a "magic" number effect or adsorbate-substrate interactions. Tunneling I(V) spectra show the dot/Ge(001) contact to exhibit marked current rectifying behavior, which is extremely well confined to the contact area.


Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu Tampere University of Applied Sciences Degree Programme in Social Services Hanninen Anna-Maria: Customer satisfaction in Service Center Aleksintupa. Bachelor s thesis 41 pages , appendices 6 pages May 2012 _____________________________________________________________________ The purpose of this research was to chart customer satisfaction and customers' participation in the daily activities offered at Aleksintupa, a service center for visually impaired people. The research was a quantitative survey study and the data was collected through a standardized customer satisfaction form completed by forty-four customers of Aleksintupa. The research was carried out in co-operation with Aleksintupa. The research data was analyzed through statistical description. According to the research results, the customers were satisfied with the services of Aleksintupa. The respondents were the most pleased with Aleksintupa s assistance services. The customers were most often accompanied by their assistants on the following occasions: when they went shopping, needed to use health services, or did outdoor activities. They hoped to get more assistants and more social recreational activities, such as trips from Aleksintupa, in the future. The research results show that the activities and services offered at Aleksintupa play a big role in the lives of the customers. The research results are quite comparable to an earlier research on customer satisfaction of Aleksintupa that was carried out in 2002. The results of the research can be used by the employees in evaluating and developing activities in Aleksintupa. Additionally, students, new workers and people who are interested in the subject may as well find the information gained from this research useful. ______________________________________________________________________


We report an environmentally-friendly approach to the synthesis of hybrids based on porous graphene and metal nanoparticles. The nitrogen-doped porous graphene (N-PG) and Pd nanoparticles decorated N-PG (Pd/N-PG) was synthesized by a plasma method. The N-PG was characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy, and the results clearly indicate that the amount of nitrogen doping was 6.65 wt%. The synthesized Pd/N-PG hybrid materials were confirmed by transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy mapping. The hybrid material based on Pd/N-PG as a new catalyst was applied in Suzuki reaction. This catalyst offers a number of advantages such as high stability, easy removal from the reaction mixture and reusability with minimal loss of activity, showing better performance than the well-known commercial Pd/C catalyst.


FIELD: medicine, pharmaceutics. SUBSTANCE: group of inventions relates to compositions for oral cavity care and methods of such compositions application. Claimed composition for oral cavity care contains amorphous quartz and source of ions of bivalent tin, with average size of amorphous quartz particles constituting from 1 to 20 microns. Version of composition additionally includes one or more essential oils and chelant. Method of oral cavity care includes stage, at which upper said composition is introduced into subject's oral cavity. EFFECT: application of amorphous quartz (fuse quartz) as abrasive in mixture of composition for oral cavity care ensures good compatibility with ions of bivalent tin with effective and safe cleaning of dental tissues. 17 cl, 2 ex, 30 dwg


This report presents information on human error in nuclear power plants causing actions to be performed on the wrong train of systems with redundant trains or on the wrong unit of a multi-unit facility. 10 refs.


The genus Dendroctonus Erichson, 1836, is one of the most important in the
subfamily Scolytinae, due to its ecological role. Dendroctonus mexicanus Hopkins
is the most damaging species in the Mexican forests, due to its wide distribution in
the country. In this study, the presence and activity of D. mexicanus and other
associated beetles in the pine forests (Pinus cembroides Zucc) was compared at
three sites in «Reserva Sierra Gorda de Guanajuato» and several factors
associated with infestations caused by these insects was evaluated. It was
established a monitoring system at the three sites with Lindgren traps baited with
frontalin + alpha-pinene, for a year. At each site, It was determined the structure of
vegetation, and estimated the age of trees and the thickness of growth rings in it, in
both, infested and healthy pines. It was also used geographic information systems
to detect changes in vegetation over a period of 1.5 years, and in order to describe
physiographic aspects related with infestations. The results suggest that the
increase in temperature, a wood age superior than 80 years as well as the position
of the infestation spot on the hillside which may influence on insolation, are
important factors associated with bark beetle infestations. D. mexicanus showed
higher flight activity in May and June months, with a decrease during the rainy
season, and in low temperature months. Higher flight activity on Ips sp. occurred in
August and September.


The single-breath diffusing capacities for singly and doubly 18O-labeled CO2,[Formula: see text]and[Formula: see text], as well as for NO, were determined in seven anesthetized rabbits to investigate whether the theoretically predicted ratio of specific blood uptake rates of both isotopic CO2species,[Formula: see text]/[Formula: see text]= 2.0, can be derived from the measured values of[Formula: see text]and[Formula: see text]. Data of Dl were obtained by inflating the lungs with gas mixtures containing 0.35% C16O18O or 0.8% C18O2or 0.05% NO in nitrogen, with breath-holding periods of 0.05-0.5 s and 2-12 s for the CO2 and NO tests, respectively.[Formula: see text]/[Formula: see text]was calculated by applying the double-reciprocal Roughton-Forster equation to Dl values obtained in each animal and by assuming that NO diffusing capacity represents the gas conductance of the alveolar-capillary membrane. The measured ratio was[Formula: see text]/[Formula: see text]= 1.9 ± 0.2 (mean ± SD), thus comparing reasonably with the predicted one. Therefore, our findings provide evidence that the greater value of[Formula: see text]is mainly due to the twofold higher probability (or theta value) for C18O2than for C16O18O to disappear within red blood cells via isotopic exchange reactions.


RATIONALE
The US Department of Labor administers the Federal Black Lung Program (FBLP), an administrative system charged with managing claims by coal miners for workers' compensation for totally disabling coal mine dust lung disease. Specific case reports have raised concern that financial conflicts of interest (COI) may systematically bias physicians when they are classifying chest x-rays (CXRs) for the absence, presence and severity of pneumoconiosis.

OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the direction and magnitude of association between financial COI of physicians participating in the FBLP and international standards for the classification of radiographs of pneumoconiosis.

METHODS
An epidemiologic assessment of black lung claims filed to the FBLP, 2000-2013, was conducted to determine physician classifications of radiographs. FBLP court decisions for years 2002-2019 (n=7,656) were used to evaluate financial COI of each physician. The main outcome measures used were classifications of radiographs for the absence of pneumoconiosis (small opacity classifications of 0/0 or 0/1), simple pneumoconiosis (small opacity classifications of 1/0 through 3/+) and Progressive Massive Fibrosis (PMF; large opacities with classifications of A, B or C).

RESULTS
Out of 63,780 radiograph classifications made by 264 physicians, 31.4% were read positive for simple pneumoconiosis and 3.6% were read as having progressive massive fibrosis (PMF). There were 52 physicians who classified CXRs as having no evidence of pneumoconiosis in 99%+ of their readings, and 18 physicians who classified CXRs as positive for simple pneumoconiosis in 99%+ of their readings. The adjusted odds of a negative classification of pneumoconiosis was 1.46 (CI95%: 1.44, 1.47) per 10% increase in the proportion of court records demonstrating that a physician was hired by the employer. Per 10% increase in court records indicating a physician was hired by the miner-claimant, the adjusted odds ratio for classifying simple pneumoconiosis was 1.51 (CI95%: 1.49, 1.52) and for finding PMF was 1.28 (CI95%: 1.26, 1.30).

CONCLUSIONS
There was a strong association between source of payment and radiograph classification suggesting the importance of eliminating financial COI in what should be an objective determination of eligibility for Black Lung workers' compensation benefits.


The UA9 experiment is installed in the CERN SPS to study how coherent interaction in crystalline materials can be used to steer particles beams. Recently, new experiments requiring complex beam manipulations by means of crystals have been proposed in the framework of the Physics Beyond Colliders study group at CERN. In particular, it was proposed to use a first crystal to direct protons from the LHC beam halo on a target placed in the beam pipe and to use a second crystal to deflect the particles produced in the target (double-crystal setup), allowing to measure their polarization. The layout of the UA9 experiment in the CERN SPS has been modified to study the feasibility of the proposed scenario and its compatibility with the delicate environment of a superconducting collider. A first set of measurements was performed in 2017 proving that the protons deflected by the first crystal can be intercepted and successfully deflected by a second crystal. A further upgrade of the experiment in 2018 will allow measuring more precisely the combined efficiency of the two crystals and the beam-induced background.


The peripheral ameloblastoma is a very rare odontogenic tumor of the oral cavity, although ameloblastoma usually occurs centrally in the jaw bone. A case of peripheral ameloblastoma in the gingiva of a 49-year-old man is presented.The clinical and histological features of peripheral ameloblastoma are also reviewed. The tumor mass was encapsulated by connective tissue.Using local anesthesia, the lesion was excised surgically with a small amount of cortical bone, and no evidence of recurrence was seen 5 months later.


This paper exploits data from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to shed light on the link between measured cognitive skills (proficiency), (formal) educational attainment and labour market outcomes. After presenting descriptive statistics on the degree of dispersion in the distributions of proficiency and wages, the paper shows that the cross-country correlation between these two dimensions of inequality is very low and, if anything, negative. As a next step, the paper provides estimates of the impact of both proficiency and formal education at different parts of the distribution of earnings. Formal education is found to have a larger impact on inequality, given that returns to education are in general much higher at the top than at the bottom of the distribution. The profile of returns to proficiency, by contrary, is much flatter. This is consistent with the idea that PIAAC measures rather general skills, while at the top end of the distribution the labour market rewards specialised knowledge that is necessarily acquired through tertiary and graduate education. Finally, a decomposition exercise shows that composition effects are able to explain a very limited amount of the observed cross-country differences in wage inequality. This suggests that economic institutions, by shaping the way personal characteristics are rewarded in the labour market, are the main determinants of wage inequality.


Based on a time series of ocean climate indices and catch records for seven pelagic fish species in the Tsushima Warm Current (TWC) and Kuroshio-Oyashio Current (KOC) regions from 1910 to 2004, we detected regional synchrony in the long-term fluctuations of the fish populations and identified alternation patterns of dominant species related to climate shifts. The annual catches of Pacific herring, Japanese sardines, Japanese anchovies, jack mackerel, chub mackerel, Pacific saury and common squid in the TWC region fluctuated in phase with those in the KOC region, which suggests that they were controlled by the same basin-wide climate forcing. After the collapse of the herring fishery, the alternation sequence was: sardines (1930s), Pacific saury, jack mackerel, common squid and anchovies (), herring (), chub mackerel (1970s) and then sardines (1980s). As sardine biomass decreased in the late stages of the cool regime, catch of the other four species increased immediately during the warm period of the 1990s. Regional differences in the amplitude of long-term catch fluctuations for the seven pelagic fishes could be explained by regional differences in availability, fishing techniques and activity.


The Institute for Standardisation is the national organisation for standardisation established as an autonomous institution of governmental administration for affairs related to the standardisation area. Basic activities of Standardisation Institutes are related to the Law on Standardisation of the countries belonging to, where the scope of jurisdiction is clearly stated in the Law on establishment the Institute for Standardisation of the specific country especially at Balkan region area. Enquiry and Notification Point/Enquiry and Notification System provide notifications on standards and information on situation regarding technical regulations and standards to European CEN, CENELEC and WTO Organization. It improve the transparency and access to information on preparation of standards at national, European and international levels as well as to improve the information system for standardisation to be compatible with International and European Organisations for Standardisation. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n3p311


The use of the Double Displacement Process (DDP) has received considerable interest as a method of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). The DDP has already studied in several fields and yielded promising results. This process consists of injecting gas into waterflooded oil zones. The Second Contact Water Displacement (SCWD) Process is an extension of the DDP and consists of injecting water after a DDP. In general, fractured reservoirs have always been considered poor candidates for enhanced oil recovery; this is mainly due to the complexities involved in predicting performance in such reservoirs. This paper investigates the efficiency of oil recovery using DDP and SCWD in a group of fractured cores. It was necessary to stack several core plugs in order to obtain accurate volumetric results. Two experiments were designed to illustrate both natural depletion and tertiary gas injection under extreme conditions; it means 5520 psi and 280.4 o F (HP/HT). Natural and nitrogen gas were used during the experiments. Results indicate that injection of natural gas in naturally fractured reservoirs with light oils could significantly recover more oil, compared to N2 injection (DDP). The study reveals that a significant amount of residual oil will be recovered by tertiary gas injection in a mature oil field where the water injection has been used during a long period. Finally, a second water displacement (SCWD) was carried out to evaluate additional recovery factors.


There are many important publicly available agricultural geospatial data products for the agriculture-related research, applications, and educational outreach programs. The traditional data distribution method cannot fully meet users' on-demand geospatial data needs. This paper presents interoperable, standard-compliant Web services developed for geospatial data access, query, retrieval, statistics, mapping, and comparison. Those standard geospatial Web services can be integrated in scientific workflows to accomplish specific tasks or consumed over the Web to create value-added new geospatial application by users. In addition, this paper demonstrates, via real world use cases, applications of those services and potential impacts on facilitating geospatial Cropland Data Layer (CDL) retrieval, analysis, visualization, dissemination and integration in agricultural industry, government, research, and educational communities. This paper also shows that the geospatial Web service approach helps improve the reusability, interoperability, dissemination, and utilization of agricultural geospatial data. It allows for integrating multiple online applications and different geospatial data sources, and enables automated retrieving and delivery of agricultural geospatial information for decision-making support.


Disclosed are a client positioning method and apparatus. The method comprises: a positioning server determining positioning basis information in a set position range, and pushing the positioning basis information in the set position range to a client of a user for storage so as to instruct the client to perform positioning according to the positioning basis information; the client receiving the positioning basis information in the set position range, pushed by the positioning server, and storing same; when receiving a positioning request, performing positioning according to the positioning basis information; and returning a positioning result to a user. By means of the technical solution in the embodiments of the present invention, a client does not need to send a positioning request to a positioning server when performing positioning, and where there is no network or a network is abnormal, the client still can successfully perform positioning with a high probability. Searching and operations do not need to be performed on a server for positioning in most situations, thereby greatly saving on computational resources of the server, so the server can bear more necessary positioning requests.


Important tool to regulate the labor market, employment policies are concerns of state intervention in the labor market in order to ensure the highest level of employment and reduce the possible undesirable effects of unemployment. The transition process of the Romanian economy, which began 20 years ago, resulted in profound changes in all areas of society: political, economic and social emergence and development of unemployment is only one of them.


We optimized the emission spectrum of a quantum dot (QD) backlight and achieved ∼140% color gamut in CIE 1976 color space. The QD-based LCD not only exhibits a wide color gamut but also improves the optical efficiency. Our systematic photometric analysis provides useful guidelines to further optimize the QD backlight design.